Some quick notes with regard to the photos themselves... For most of this series, I left the light studio on the shelf and instead, took advantage of the great natural light that pours into the huge windows in our 15th floor condo. When the photos are taken around noon, the light bouncing around the living room creates a nearly shadow free zone near the center of the room. The spectrum and diffuse lighting has made for the easiest mini picture taking I've ever done. I simply set the camera to macro lens and clicked away multiple shots (I didn't even use a tripod). With the photo studio, I had to carefully direct the lamps and continual tweak the camera's aperture and color settings.
Monday, May 31, 2010
OSL Fire Prism - Update 7
The tank is completely painted and glued together. I just need to finish adding terrain to the base of the stand and the model will be complete. While waiting for some of the rocks to dry, I went ahead and snapped a few more photos. Below are some new views of the finished version.
Some quick notes with regard to the photos themselves... For most of this series, I left the light studio on the shelf and instead, took advantage of the great natural light that pours into the huge windows in our 15th floor condo. When the photos are taken around noon, the light bouncing around the living room creates a nearly shadow free zone near the center of the room. The spectrum and diffuse lighting has made for the easiest mini picture taking I've ever done. I simply set the camera to macro lens and clicked away multiple shots (I didn't even use a tripod). With the photo studio, I had to carefully direct the lamps and continual tweak the camera's aperture and color settings.
Some quick notes with regard to the photos themselves... For most of this series, I left the light studio on the shelf and instead, took advantage of the great natural light that pours into the huge windows in our 15th floor condo. When the photos are taken around noon, the light bouncing around the living room creates a nearly shadow free zone near the center of the room. The spectrum and diffuse lighting has made for the easiest mini picture taking I've ever done. I simply set the camera to macro lens and clicked away multiple shots (I didn't even use a tripod). With the photo studio, I had to carefully direct the lamps and continual tweak the camera's aperture and color settings.
Saturday, May 29, 2010
OSL Fire Prism - Update 6
I'd say that I'm about 80% complete with the engine glow effect. There is something that I just don't like, but I don't know what it is yet. A suggestion for those wishing to try something similar: don't glue the two pieces of the lower hull together before painting them. The inside of the engine nozzles would be much easier to reach if they were not already combined and trying to blend the interior or a tube is not easy. I don't really like how it turned out, but I don't think I can make it look much better. The below picture shows the results so far. The top image shows the results of my initial plan, however, something looked missing when I looked into the engine nozzle and couldn't see anything that could be the source of the blue glow. The lower image is my tentative fix. It uses the back half of an Imperial search light casing (from old tank accessory sprue) to represent the engine's flame cone within the nozzle. The problem is that the nozzle casts a shadow on the flame cone and ruins the OSL effect a bit.
Please let me know which version you think looks better. I think I like the lower version.
Please let me know which version you think looks better. I think I like the lower version.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
OSL Fire Prism - Update 5
OK....no OSL in this episode. Using a suggestion from Kenneth (probably 8 years ago) I've used one of the stock decals and hand painted over it. I think it looks pretty good. I'm a little worried about how this hybrid will react to the spray varnish. I've found that the slide on decals hate the spray varnish and shrivel up after being sprayed.
Next phase is making those engines you see in the below picture appear to have an inner blue glow.
Next phase is making those engines you see in the below picture appear to have an inner blue glow.
Sunday, May 23, 2010
OSL Fire Prism - Update 4
I'd say that I'm about 85% done--with all of the crystal glow effects complete. The remaining painting includes the entire undercarriage and the base. Since the average view of the model will see only 10% of the undercarriage, I'm very reluctant to put a lot of work into it. I've seen some artists go nuts with glow effects from the bottom vents and so forth, but you'd never see this work unless you lifted and flipped the model. Therefore, I'm just going to concentrate on the engines and the back door. I plan to make the engines appear as though there is blue glow coming from within. On the back door, I intend to paint an Iyanden rune. The tank comes with a stock decal that fits perfectly, but I haven't decided whether I will apply and then paint over the decal or just go pure freehand.Below are two pictures of the tank so far.
Since Update 3; the engine intakes, the blue hull panels, and the nose weapon have been painted. The blue blending gave me a surprising amount of difficulty. After several hours of repainting I believe the problem I was having stemmed from the middle shade of blue paint. It seemed to have a higher-than-average pigment density that made it difficult to create a gradient as I dragged the brush. The dark blue I was using worked much better, so I did the whole blue blend dragging this darker shade over the medium blue in a hundred successive, very thin layers.
Since Update 3; the engine intakes, the blue hull panels, and the nose weapon have been painted. The blue blending gave me a surprising amount of difficulty. After several hours of repainting I believe the problem I was having stemmed from the middle shade of blue paint. It seemed to have a higher-than-average pigment density that made it difficult to create a gradient as I dragged the brush. The dark blue I was using worked much better, so I did the whole blue blend dragging this darker shade over the medium blue in a hundred successive, very thin layers.
Sunday, May 9, 2010
OSL Fire Prism - Update 3
The hull is coming along quite well. Below is a pair of images showing the progress so far. The blue panels still need to be blended and hard lined and the gems on the front of the hull need to be painted green. The lower hull (the black part) is still untouched. Nevertheless, enough is done to show how the OSL is coming along. I am satisfied with the way the yellow green came out on the tan and how the reflection of the crystal came out on the canopy. To accentuate the brightness from the crystal, I painted the opposite side of the hull in a couple shades darker tan...which I think worked out well too.
Looking at these pics, I see some lines that need to be cleaned up and the like. Since you don't normally get to see Golden Demon pics at this close range, I wonder how clean their lines really are.
Next up; I finish the blue panels and then on to the bottom hull. I look forward painting the refection of the crystal on the engine intake grid as well as making the exhaust nozzles glow.
Looking at these pics, I see some lines that need to be cleaned up and the like. Since you don't normally get to see Golden Demon pics at this close range, I wonder how clean their lines really are.
Next up; I finish the blue panels and then on to the bottom hull. I look forward painting the refection of the crystal on the engine intake grid as well as making the exhaust nozzles glow.
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